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What Could the Country Get From a Higher Gas Tax? Look to Pennsylvania for Clues (Inquisitr, Inquirer) So Much For “User Pays” (Vox) The Gas Tax Isn’t a Sustainable Solution: Switch to a VMT Fee (Center for American Progress) Tracy Morgan Going Home From Hospital, Suing Wal-Mart Over Tired Trucker (Salon) Seniors Less Likely to Take Transit … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:49 AM EDT on July 14, 2014

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What Could the Country Get From a Higher Gas Tax? Look to Pennsylvania for Clues (Inquisitr, Inquirer)
So Much For “User Pays” (Vox)
The Gas Tax Isn’t a Sustainable Solution: Switch to a VMT Fee (Center for American Progress)
Tracy Morgan Going Home From Hospital, Suing Wal-Mart Over Tired Trucker (Salon)
Seniors Less Likely to Take Transit (Washington U)
Heat Sensing Tech Could Save Cyclists the Trouble of Pushing the Beg Button (Popular Mechanics)
Gov. Jerry Brown Lifts Ban on Above-Ground Rail in Parts of LA (LAT)
How Minneapolis Came to Approve the Southwest Corridor (Strib)
Road Tolls Pay a Larger-Than-Expected Share of Metro Silver Line (WaPo)
Boston Should Do More to Promote Transportation’s Sharing Economy (Globe)
What If Garmin Caused the Drop in VMT? (WashCycle)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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